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Audit of bigotry: How Indian media vilified Tablighi Jamaat over coronavirus outbreak -Ayan Sharma & Chahak Gupta

-Newslaundry.com

Communal hatred, fake news, conspiracy theories, misinformation, misreporting. The coverage of the Nizamuddin congregation had it all.

Having recovered from Covid-19, more than 200 followers of the Tablighi Jamaat are donating plasma to Delhi’s hospitals. Blood plasma containing antibodies against coronavirus from recovered patients is given to severely ill people to help them fight off the infection. It’s an experimental treatment known as convalescent plasma therapy. The donation by the Tablighis suffices for the current need of the capital’s plasma bank, as per the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, which handles the collection.

You may have stumbled upon this news in a newspaper or on the internet. It hasn’t generated endless primetime coverage, opinion pieces and social chatter that has become associated with the Tablighis lately. But go back to the beginning of April and a section of the media only talked about the Tablighis, holding them almost solely responsible for the coronavirus outbreak in India.

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